This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
In a normative multi-agent system the behaviour of the constituting agents is regulated by means of social and organisational inspired concepts like norms and sanctions. This pape...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
Multi-agent system research is concerned with the issues surrounding the performance of collections of interacting agents. A major concern, therefore, is with the design of the dec...
In this paper we present the Behaviosite paradigm, a new approach to affecting the behavior of distributed agents in a multiagent system, which is inspired by biological parasites ...
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
Many approaches of the agent paradigm emphasize the social and intentional features of their systems, what are called social properties. The study of these aspects demands their ow...